the vat cans secretary of state has been invited to mediate from the south american union of nations. the opposition wants protest leader leopoldo lopez to be set free. >> the student remain determined. living on a main street in the capital. it is a time for resistance. >> there are painting banners and building paper telescopes with messages inside, call n on all venezuela to have the fight. >> students are divided. most are demanding the resignation of president nicolas maduro. >> to be honest, we don't have proposals for the government, but we don't want to have a dialogue. >> in spite of weeks of protests, nicolas maduro can count on a solid core of support. it is shrinking, according to opinion polls. what may be helping him is political divisions run deep among the leaders. >> the opposition hasn't gained anything from the protests because public opinion rejects violence. instead it is evident that there are internal subdivisions among the -- divisions among the leaders and that is damaging. >> protests have died down. there are barricades like this, left as demonstrators aroun

. >> members of the union of south american nations brokered a meeting to find a way out of the political crisis that lasted two months. >> this dialogue for peace cannot wait longer. people are hurt because of violence. no matter who is responsible. >> protesters are in no mood to negotiates. >> we will not have a lying og. >> there'll be no negotiations or pacts. >> this will be a debate. protesters say the only way to overcome the crisis is to remove nicolas maduro from office. >> public transport, schools and hospitals have been closed or cut back during a strike in argentina. many areas of the economy were paralyzed by the 24 hour stoppage. trade union members walked off the job. soaring inflation effects living standards. union leaders are warning of chaos unless the government meets their demands. >> search crews are confident they have found underwater signals from the missing malaysia airlines jet. the single is starting to fade. black box batteries are designed to last a month, and it's been five weeks since the jet vanished with 239 on board. >> we have very much narrowed down

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foreign ministers with the union of south american nations shuttled between president nicolas maduro, and opposition groups trying to start talks that could lead to a dialogue. it came as amnesty international released a report warning of spiralling violence, and the country risked the rule of law. it highlights human rights violation, including torture and attacks fon journalists -- upon journalists. many took to the streets to demonstrate against one of the highest crime rates in the world. i spoke to our correspondent. good of you to join us. the pois demanded that all political prisoners be freed and peace talks be televised before talking to the government. are these discussions very preliminary. >> what is happening is there are very deep differences between both sides. the president nicolas maduro said that he is ready for talks, he will talk about the economic policies, and he will talk about the insecurity. now, as you were saying, the political opposition wants more - more than having this meeting televised and with the mediator, the representative of the vatican mediating t

. >> in this round of talks members of the union of south american nations brokered the meeting to find a way out of the political crisis that has lasted over two months. >> this die lag for peace cannot wait any longer. while there are people hurt and killed because of violence, no matter who is responsible. >> but in the streets of the capitol, protesters are in no mood to negotiate. >> we will not have a dialogue oveoverover the tombs of our ded brothers. >> these protesters say the only way to overcome the cries is to remove nicolÁs maduro from office. al jazeera, caracas, venezuela. >> crews have narrowed the search area for the missing malaysian airlines plane. they're confident the signals coming deep from the indian ocean are from the missing plane's black boxes, but the signals are fading. the batteries that power the blacks books only last a month. 64-year-old alan gross is serving a 15 year sentence for trying to start an illegal internet service in cuba. he began the strike to protest his treatment by the cuban government but ended it at the request of his 91-year-old mother

she's chef and own over a restaurant where the cuisines of southern india and the american south form a perfect culinary unions looks really great. >> and smells great. >> i wish we hall smell vision. >> that's one thing about spices. that's what indian's cuisine a s all about. >> what do we have here? >> it's a dish that dates back a couple of hundred years. a portuguese influence that came to the coastal region southern coastal reason from southern in india. we have a cornbread. my take on the indian south meeting the american south and showing the synergy between the two regions. we're closer to the equator. we grow the same kind of produce twochl energies, rice sewerin common cane syrup in common. we have this green bean. our take on a fried green tomato is the green tomato fritter. peach chutny and a spiced bread pudding. >> poor anthony has had to listen to me say i'm so excited because i'm indian too. our cuisine is much less recognized. >> absolut. it's very underdiscovered cuisine. i think there's a huge misnomer. when you think of indian food you're thinking of other things and i think it's so diver

. >> members of the union of south american nations brokered the meeting to find a way out of the political crisis that has lasted over two months. >> this dialogue for peace cannot wait any longer. there are people hurt because of violence. no matter who is responsible. from the streets of the capitol, protesters are in no mood to negotiate. >> we will not have a dialogue at the tools of our dead brothers. >> they say this will be a debate. they say the only way to remove the crisis is by removing president maduro from? >> venzuela aans have been proce protesting the high crime rate, unemployment. these are the largest anti-government frosts to sweep through the country in a decade. >> there is pressure for the president to finalize the keystone pipeline demandi environmental activists opposing the pipeline which would stretch from canada to texas. president obama must approve the project because it crosses an international boundary. a battle in kentucky over a different pipeline proposal. farmers and other locals are fighting to keep the so-called blue grass pipeline off of their land. jo

. >> members of the union of south american nations who met in caracas last week said both sides shoulde violence and moderate their language. they'll meet in caracas on monday to once again try to bring both sides to the negotiating table. >> the catholic church accused the president of trying to repress that opposition. >> we'll talk about business owners struggling to survive, chaos going on for decades. >> it chronicles a stain on our history that must never be allowed to happen again. >> the senate votes to declassify a c.i.a. report so americans can decide for themselves if interrogation practices like waterboarding amounted to abuse. >> our big number of the day is 5,150,000,000. >> what one company did to have to pay that record fine. >> this is a live look at the storm damage in hopkins county, texas where power outages in that severe system tore through the area, a lot of people still in the dark. >> that storm is not over. good morning, welcome to al jazeera america. >> straight ahead, businesses are trying to stay afloat in ukraine in a culture of corruption. that may be the

well be turned, the north american neighbors would become an even more formidable super power with an economy larger than the european union and a land mass bigger than southmerica's. the new union would top the world in energy, minerals, water, arable land and technology, unquote. >> you make an interesting point, basic point in the book. what is the benefit to the united states in a merger between the u.s. and canada? >> well, the benefit would be and by the way it is all different ways you can merge you don't have to go all the way like the germans did. i make that clear in the book but it would be total security of borders, access and control over the arctic which is going to be very geo politically important strategically going forward. >> are you worried about russia and china. >> russia declared the arctic as russian china targeted kana the's resources and the base -- canada's resources and the base is about the size of australia and completely untapped. it is harsh but there is no infrastructure up there to explore it. the u.s. would have if we did a union like the europeans the u.s. would have business opportunities to build out the infrastructure

south american transsexuals. then there are other streets with hungarian girls. and then here you have the spanish-speaking. >> and how have things changed in the past 10, 15 years, to now ? >> because of the european union, whenever we open up in the netherlands, for countries like romania, bulgaria, hungary, we see this whole change. at the moment, the majority of the women are eastern european. we have girls from albania. i mean how can a girl from albania out of a village i don't know where from know her way to amsterdam. know where to live, how to rent a window. there must be an organized crime behind it. >> this is the true face of holland's experiment in legalized prostitution. and this is the face of the man who trafficked her here - and beat her to ensure she worked as his sex slave. over a two year period saban baran - the leader of a turkish organized crime gang - trafficked more than 130 women - mostly from eastern europe - to holland's red light districts. each woman was tattooed with his gang's brand: each was forced to service 20 clients a day. they behaved in a very brutal way. we have seen cases of forced abortion, we've seen cases of forced tattoo of pimps name on girls; some girls were

american canyon at last check. move the maps closer to san francisco. not as much coverage here but activity few minutes away from fremont, 880, union city. southed showers. we have active weather over the next couple hours. this was the type lapse at 4:00 p.m. we had the rain showers and the clouds moving through and then breaks in the clouds and right now we have partly cloudy skies across most of the bay area. live camera in san francisco, 54 degrees. san jose clouds as well. 59. it has been a cool day, hasn't it. temperatures into the weekend will be warming back up beginning tomorrow. san jose 7:00 47. we will strip away the clouds. 4:00 p.m. 68 degrees. we are warming up in the south bay. warmest locations tomorrow around 70 degrees. weather pattern right now, this area of low pressure, this storm was stronger than we anticipated yesterday but the numbers adding up over the past 12 hours. partly cloudy skies for tonight. we are expecting a dry weather pattern this weekend. sunday by far the warmest day of the weekend. lots of 70s. warmest locations 80 degrees. here is our model, 7:00 p.m., scattered showers at 7:00 p.m. and then over nigh

south. it shows you the complexity. secondly, all colonial soldiers fought, and i don't see anybody backing away from that. lastly, the union side in the war preserved a system that deprived women and americanatives of the right to vote. what we have to do is we view american history in the context of our evolution. to put into practice the words of the constitution. and its very erroneous way is to use contemporary views to judge people of a past time. >> i should note that was a 2004 ceremony honoring the fact that they had exhumed these bodies from the hundley submarine. what is your response to that? >> and they spent millions of dollars doing it and continue to spend millions of dollars on slave tourism. you have to understand, charleston is about slave tourism. and from the slave market to the hundley. so part of it is about economics. we -- when we criticize mcconnell, a lot of people called us race baiters. so you honor the confederacy, but we're the race baiters. then they say, we're backwards because we keep looking backwards in time. when they're wearing confederate uniforms and playing soldiers. so it's all part of this rap that they've always had about heritage, not hate. they

american south pakistan completely. so therefore they're silly to carefully cautiously make it much more difficult to have the kind of information operations you could have against the soviet union against communist ideology and you could have against germany. it is simply not something your government does well. >> thank you. going to go to content over there. and then the gentleman in the back first and then i will come to the other three that i see. >> thank you. thank you very much for the excellent presentation, sir. i wonder if either of the other speakers would like to examine the role of the military in connection with the rise of political islam. i entirely agree with ambassador haqqani that political islam grows with the idea of pakistan and that was way back in 1940 actually. but, what was it that changed, even with the military? the initial military theaters, whether it's a rube or jhelum, they did not encourage any, should i say, of islam and their style of governance by and large. what changed? >> i have an entire book on the subject. if you allow me a commercial break, the book is called pakistan between mosque and military available on amazon.com. [laughter] if y

american agricultural corporations are trying to get into this former basket of union is perfectly positioned there between russia and europe also to the former stocks to the south to be a huge export or a huge export of a grain of corn and wheat is actually the third largest corn wheat producer in the world and the company that cardinal law on the bio thirteenth of this year reliance farming is the world's largest cultivator and its second largest producer so when you look at where the money is the money is is there and ukraine's and. starter which is interesting because we tend to focus on women gas and we don't really think about agriculture as such a rationale were military or democracies during interventions but i think that this agricultural market is so hot american agriculture corporations really want to get on our right now j.p. you mentioned united fruit company involved in the guatemala of course they change their name to keep to keep the banana and this of course is the beginning of decades of the u.s. empire u.s. gemini u.s. dollar reserve as a global reserve currency and if you go to guatemala and you go to south america you look at what's happened